March 28, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Note: TMN is on vacation until Monday, April 7, 2014. See you then.
- Profit model of American drug manufacturing leads to shortages of basic medicines, like IV fluid.
- Future for energy is renewables + "clean coal."
- New Mexico's arid climate is bad for most crops but good for pecans, which take years of patience to harvest.
- There are 100% more women in the Senate than there were when Anita Hill testified in 1991.
- Poetry—or the understanding of poetry as a wiser voice—plays no small part in ethnic cleansing.
- Approximately 600,000 Chinese workers die each year from work-related stress.
- Republicans should finesse gay-marriage by accepting the inevitable and demanding the freedom to dislike it.
- Advocates to open 11,304 untested rape kits discovered in Detroit.
- Book about life in a university dorm finds that working-class students thrive by transferring to smaller colleges near their birth homes.
- Authors start charging readers to visit their book clubs.
- Primer on how to tell if that guy in your book club is a homicidal maniac.
- The final match is in the can for this year's Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.
- Helen Keller on "listening" to Beethoven's Ninth.
- Nearly every culture has its own version of a Polish joke, but in Japan there's no set-up, only punchline.
- Local Japanese court reopens case for world's longest-serving death row inmate, 48 years later.
- CNN's fixation on Flight 370 turns a story into a phenomenon, emphasizing the viewer's experience over news.
- Clickbait isn't new or unethical; it's old-school journalism.
- After publishing an interview with John Updike, reporter stumbles across Updike's fictionalized version of the same interview.
